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FAHRENHEIT, account of, 537

Falk, (Mr.) his account of Swedish bat-
tues, 47

Familiar Treatise on Life Assurances and
Annuities, 464

Family Cabinet Atlas, 306

Family Library, 142

Fecundity, human, 98

Felton, (S.) his portraits of authors on gar-
dening, 469

Females, dress of the Hindbo, 199-partu-
rition of the Arab, 215

Fever, the West Indian, 364

Field Sports of the North of Europe, 39
Fine for killing a dog, 216

Fishing in Sweden, 48-account of the fly-
ing fish, 85

Fitz of Fitzford, by Mrs. Bray, 285
Flame, nature of, 543

Flaxman, the sculptor, Life of, 415-
attachment to his wife, 417-his lec-
tures, 418-his personal character and
habits, 419

Flora, the, of India, 202
Florence, climate of, 64
Flower boats of China, 345
Flowers, perfumes of, 397
Food, staple, of the Hindoos, 200
Footsteps, faculty of tracing, 221

Forgery, capital punishment in cases of,

612

Forster, (Dr.) his Letters of Locke, Sid-
ney, and Shaftesbury, 422

Fothergill, (Dr.) 605

Four Years' Residence in the West Indies,
360
France, climate of, 62

Freedom, religious, 211

Friars, account of those of Terra Santa, 7
Frost, (Mr.) Director of the Medico-Bo-
tanical Society, 102

Fugitives, The, by Edward Lane, 285
Fuller, (J.) Travels in the Turkish Empire,
by, 1

GAME OF LIFE, The, by L. Ritchie, 284
-, scarcity of, in Norway and Sweden,

Ganges, waters of, used in Hindoo cere-
monies, 201

Gardening, English authors in, 469
Genoa, climate of, 64,

Gentleman, first use of the word, 569
Geographical Institution, new one in Lon-
don, 313

Geography, Ewing's System of, 151-
Stewart's Compendium of, ib.

--, the Natural, of Europe, 145
George the Fourth, death of, 470
Gibbons, first English sculptor, 408
Gilpin Horner, 354

Glacier, description of one, 289
Goderich Ministry, its weakness, 380
Gooch, (Dr.) anecdote of, 609-letter of
on the death of his son, 610

Gordon, (Pryse) his Personal Memoirs,

489

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J.

JAGO, (R. H.) his Letter on a Commuta-
tion of Tythes, 304

James, (G.P. R.) his Poem of Adra, 131
Jefferys, (Mrs.) of Bath, 187
Jenné, account of, 30
Jennings, (Miss) 205

Jerusalem, curious reasons for a journey
to, 445

Jews, account of their state in Poland, 252
-marriages of, 253-costume of, 254—
curses of, 255-causes of the blindness
of, 257-necessity of an inquiry into the
principles of British, 258

Disabilities of, 106

Fact relating to, 471.
Jones, (W.) his lectures on the Apocalypse,
245-his abhorrence of the Church of
England, 246-his view of the prophe-
cies of St. John, 250

Jugglers, Indian, anecdote of, 184-the
swing of, 201

Julio Romano, an epic drama, 61
Juvenile prodigy, 320

K.

KAMTCHATKA, Travels in, 335
Kennedy, (Dr.) Conversations of, with
Lord Byron on religion, 475-notions of
on the subject, 476-his exclusive doc-
trines, 485-ludicrous story of, 487
Kenny, (W.S.) his Why and Because, 309
Kidd, (Mr.) account of a picture, by, 243
King's Own, a Novel, 263

King, (Lady Isabella) her Convent, 527
Kings, Saxon, 556-derivation of the word,
ib.

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LADIES, West Indian, 365-368
Ladies' Association, 527
Lady of the Lake, account of, 356
Laing, (Major) his death, 29

(Mr.) his exposure of the deception
of Ossian's poems, 560
Lakes, Leigh's Guide to, 306
Lamb, (Charles) his Album Verses, 529
Lane, (Edw.) his Fugitives, 285
Language, the, of the Anglo-Saxons, 558
Lansdowne, (Marquis of) strange anecdote
concerning his family, 188

Lardner, (Dr.) his Cabinet Cyclopædia,

546

Lark, account of, 398

Lawrence, (Sir T.) account of some of his
portraits, 243

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Lay of the Last Minstrel, 355

Leake, (Col. W. M.) his Travels in the
Morea, 1

Le Brock, (Rev. Mr.) anecdote of, 185
Lectures on the Apocalypse, 245

Flaxman's, on sculpture, 418
Leigh's Guide to the Lakes, 306-Picture
of London, 310
Lempriere, (W.) Lectures on Natural His-
tory, by, 152

Leopold, (Prince) application of the Greek
government to, 387-impolitic conduct
of, after having been appointed King of
Greece, 388-cause of his declining the
government, 391

Letter on the present neglect of the Lord's
Day, 300

-s of Locke, Sidney, and Shaftesbury,

423

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Macpherson, the publisher of Ossian, 560
Madden, (R. R.) his Mussulman, 267
-, (Mr.) his experiment on a ser-
pent's poison, 453

Madness, canine, (see Hydrophobia)
Magna Charta, eulogy of, by Sir J. Mack-
intosh, 564

Mainwaring, (Mrs.) her Suttee, 613
Mamlouks, account of, in Egypt, 5
Man, important principle relating to,
Manchester, salubrity of, 57

Manners, Brazilian, 97}

Traits of Irish, 117

Manufactures, British, amount of, exported
to India, 198

Marmion, account of, 355

Marriage, advice to a Turkish girl on, 273
-, amongst the Jews, 253

necessity of encouraging it in
the West Indies, 367
Matthias, (Mrs.) her Natural Geography
of Europe, 145

Maude, (T.) the Traveller's Lay, by, 138
May-day, carol for, 526

Maynwaring, his translation of Homer,

224

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Mill, Schiller's Tale of the, 587
Mineralogy, rudiments of, 614
Minister of religion, 204
Mohammedan religion, 438

Monk, (Dr.) his Life of Bentley, 317
Monks, the Benedictine, their readiness to
assist Bentley, 330

Mont Blanc, narrative of an ascent to the
summit of, 286

Montagu, (H. W.) a poem by, 139
Montgomery, (Robert) 311
Montmorenci, a poem, 139

Moore, (T.) misrepresentation by, 311
Morea, Leake's Travels in, 1

Mortality, principal tables of, 464--hints
for the formation of, 465

Morton, (Dr.) his Travels in Russia, 590
Mountains, the descent from high ones

more fatiguing than the ascent of, 300
Moses, veracity of the Five Books of, 150
Moxon, (Mr.) plan for setting up, 529
Mullah, the Mohammedan, 438
Mulready, the artist, anecdote of, 411
Mummy, account of a false one, 444
Munchausen, a modern, 181

Murray, (John) his remarks on hydropho
bia, 449

Music, the, of the winds, 394
Mussulman, The, by R. R. Madden, 267

N.

NAPLES, climate of, 65

Narrative of a Residence in Algiers, 614
National Debt, proposal to the ladies to
cause it to be paid, 310

Natural history, (see Lloyd, Walsh, Lem-
priere, Howard, India, Mac Diarmid,
Rhind, British Naturalist)
Naturalist, the British, 393

Navarino, battle of, justified, 383
Negro character, 87

Nelson, Life of, 142

(Lord) anecdote of, 495

Nerves of respiration, 456

Nervous disorders, peculiar to Roman la-
dies, 65

Netherlands, language of, 469

Neutrality, new species of one, proposed
by England, 380

New Bath Guide, 469

Newmarket meetings occasion breaches of
the Sabbath, 302

Newnham, (Mr.) his account of Mr. Web-
ster's death, 435
Newspapers, 471

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of the West Indies, 368
Newton, (Mr.) account of some of his
paintings, 244

Nice, climate of, 64

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of London, 310

-s, puffing of, 232-account of the
62d annual exhibition of at Somerset
House, 233

Pilgrim of the Hebrides, a poem, 138
s to Mecca, 10

Piso, curious fact relating to, 64
Plague, the, of 1665, 603

Plain Instructions to Executors and Admi.
nistrators, 309

Plants, their medical efficacy, 104

Plays, account of some national ones in
Ireland, 117

Poem, by J. C. Smith, 362
Poetry, Minor, 123

Poets, their injustice to each other, 303
Poison, the, of Hydrophobia, 452—of the
horned serpent, 453-of the rattlesnake,
455

Pope, his translation of Homer, 225
Population, connexion of tables of mor-
tality with, 465

of India, 196

Porson, (Professor) anecdotes of, 496-his
marriage, 497

Port-au-Prince, social intercourse of 163-
commerce of, 165

Portfolio of the Martyr Student, 137
Porter, (Miss A. M.) her Barony, 285
Portraits of English authors on gardening,
469

Portugal, law of the succession to the
throne of, 145

Pringle, (Dr.) 605
Priesthood, Book of the, 467

Proctor, (Mr.) 529
Prodigy, juvenile, 320
Prognostication, perfection of the Kam-
tchatdales in, 338

Protocols relating to Greece, 375-386
Puffing pictures as well as books, 232
Pulse, effect of great elevations upon,

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state of, in England, 203
Remarks on hydrophobia, 449
Representative principle, early history of,
566-in different countries, 567-its
operation on society, 568
Respiration, nerves of, 456
Revelations, (see Apocalypse).

Rhind, (W.) his studies in natural his-
tory,

Rhyme, English, capability of, 224

Rio de Janeiro, description of, 87-bishop
of, 92-population, 95
Ritchie, (L.) his Game of Life, 284
Roads of Odessa, 598

Robber, curious policy of the Arabs to-
wards, 216

Robinson, (Rev. T.) his Last Days of
Bishop Heber, 517

Rodney, (Admiral) anecdote of, 494
Rokeby, account of, 358

Romances, The, of Chivalry, fate of,
564

Romantic Stanza, 353

Rome, climate of, 65-peculiar affection of
the ladies of, ib.

Rouge et Noir, a poem, 150
Roubiliac, account of, 409
Russia, Travels in, by Dr. Morton, 590
(Emperor of) account of the last

moments of, 446

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legislative policy of, 341

policy of, explained in the war

with Turkey, 384

S.

SABBATH DAY, neglect of, 300

Sanctorio, inventor of the thermometer, 536
Saxons, Anglo-Kings of, 556-their Wite-
nagemote, 557-their language, 558
St. Domingo, some account of, 172
St. Gothard, Mount, 616

St. John, Revelations of, attempt to ex-
pound, 245

Scandinavia, account of the bears of, 41
Schiller, his Wallenstein's Camp, 570
Schools, Irish hedge, 121

Scotch Grocer in London, 490
Scotland, courtship in, 282

Scott, (Sir Walter) his autobiography, 347
-his first poetical essay, 350-his reso-
lution, 351-his early poetry, 354-not
a partizan of his own poetry, 357-result
of his labours questioned, 359-his visit
to Waterloo, 503

Sculptors, Lives of Eminent British, 408
Sculpture, 408-Flaxman's Lectures on,

418

Sea, cannot be seen from the top of Mont
Blanc, 297

Seasons described, 393-401-404
Sects, variety of, 203

Senate, The, a Poem, 614
Sermon, singular one, 581
Serpent, horned, poison of, 453
Shaftesbury, (Lord) Original Letters of,
422-428-admonitions of, 429-his
prescription, 433

Shee, (Mr.) his picture of Lavinia, 241

(Mr. jun.) his picture of the disco-
very of Canilla by Gil Blas, 240
Sheep, the mountain, account of, 338
Shepherd, (Rev. W.) Poems by, 132
Shepherd and his dog in France, 618
Shiregemotes, account of, 557

Siberia, Travels in, 335-exiles in, 340-
account of, 343

Sidney, original letters of, 422

Sillery, (C. D.) his Vallery, a poem,

130

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